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Australia’s Marinus Link achieves FID and secures EPBC Act approval for Tasmania interconnector

August 5, 2025
Marinus Link Pty has secured FID and EPBC Act approval for the first stage of its HVDC interconnector connecting Victoria and Tasmania.
Image: Akaysha Energy (via LinkedIn).

Akaysha Energy’s ‘giant shock absorber’ Waratah Super Battery switched on in Australia

August 5, 2025
The first 350MW/700MWh of the Waratah Super Battery in New South Wales, Australia, has officially come online.
Image: Fluence.

Hybrid battery systems: A new frontier for Australia’s energy market

August 4, 2025
Fluence’s Matt Grover and Sam Markham discuss the growing opportunity for hybrid renewables-plus-storage projects in Australia.
Image: Energy Security Corporation (via LinkedIn).

New South Wales’s green bank Energy Security Corporation: ‘If there’s a gap getting a project over the line, we will try and play a role’

August 4, 2025
Paul Peters, CEO of the New South Wales Energy Security Corporation (ESC) discusses the investment mandate of the newly launched green bank.
Image: Akaysha Energy.

Grid-scale battery storage discharging hits all-time quarterly high in Australia’s NEM

August 1, 2025
Grid-scale BESS discharge has hit an all-time quarterly high in Australia’s National Electricity Market for an average of 162MW in Q2 of 2025.
Image: NSW Independent Planning Commission.

Ark Energy to add 2,000MWh BESS at wind project in New South Wales, Australia

August 1, 2025
Ark Energy has submitted plans for a 2,000MWh wind-plus-storage project to the New South Wales Independent Planning Commission (IPC).
Image: Solar Media.

Tesla: ‘I don’t think we’re going to sell another battery in Australia that’s not grid-forming’

July 31, 2025
Tesla’s Shane Bannister revealed that he doesn’t think Tesla will sell another battery in Australia that’s not grid-forming.
AGL Energy is set to begin construction on the 2GWh Tomago grid-forming BESS (pictured). Image: Fluence (AGL).

Fluence lands its biggest deal globally for 2,000MWh grid-forming BESS in Australia

July 31, 2025
Fluence has penned its largest battery energy storage system deal globally for a 2,000MWh battery storage project owned by Australia’s AGL.
Image: Akaysha Energy.

Australia uplifts Capacity Investment Scheme target to 40GW of renewables and energy storage

July 30, 2025
Australia’s minister for climate change and energy, Chris Bowen, has confirmed that the Capacity Investment Scheme (CIS) will be upsized from 32GW to 40GW.
Image: Solar Media.

Australia’s New South Wales to launch 500MW firming tender to address grid-reliability issues

July 29, 2025
The New South Wales government has announced plans to launch a new tender seeking 500MW of firming capacity, seeking bids from battery energy storage, gas and virtual power plants (VPP).

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